The first Clockenflap was praised as the "most successful event of its kind in Hong Kong" and attracted a wide audience of 1,500 young professionals, families, artists and visitors to Hong Kong. It was also notable for the organizers' use of viral marketing which included mysterious film trailers and eye-catching street-level campaigns.
Clockenflap was founded and is organized by Jay Forster and Mike Hill who, as the principal members of the Robot collective, have been leading contributors to the Hong Kong new media arts scene since 1997. Their stated goals for the festival are to nurture the Hong Kong arts, music and film scene and "put the city on Asia's contemporary media-arts circuit". The event strongly promotes environmental awareness. The organizers have a strict policy of carbon-offsetting and employ a team of dedicated "recycling wardens" to collect and separate all rubbish generated by the festival.
The second Clockenflap
Organizers have announced that the second Clockenflap festival will be held on Saturday 11th October 2008, from 1pm to 2am. It will include two stages, a film tent and a children's area. An audience of 2,000 people is anticipated. Tickets are expected to go on sale in September 2008.. The event was widely praised as "giving the city of Hong Kong a much needed shot of culture". It was also marked by peacefulness: No noise complaints, arrests or police interventions of any kind were made. The line-up included:
Musicians:
* The Young Knives *[
* Bizali
* Kid Carpet
* Waxed Apple
* Clementine is my Sunshine
* Uptown Rockers vs Robot
* DP
* My Little Airport
* Ray Dollars
Film & Animation:
* Amy Neil
* Warp Films
* Future Shorts
* I Shot Hong Kong
* Lindsay Robertson
* James Hacking
* Emma-Jade Li & Cassandra Chan
* Josh Evans
* Jay Forster
* Victor Pena & Digger T Mesch
Installation Artists:
* ST/ART
* Stanley Wong
* Sam Chan
* Rob Luxton
Graphic Artists:
* Tereza Tan
* Twocollect
* Jay Forster
* Claire Fawcett
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